The Power of Constraints in Natural Language to SQL Translation

Summary: REDSQL: plug-and-play refiner that uses constraint-driven extraction of relation summaries and data profiles over the entire DB to detect and fix semantic SQL errors beyond LLM context limits. Yields large NL2SQL gains (e.g., +8.8% CODES, +11.1% PURPLE on BIRD). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13863
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.380727e-05
Overall Rank: 9,151 | 36.41%
DOI: 10.14778/3734839.3734847

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,268	OpenSQL: Data-Efficient Text-to-SQL for Open-Source LLMs via Synthesized Intermediate Supervision	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
205	Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases	2015	VLDB	0.00034651121
366	Text-to-SQL Empowered by Large Language Models: A Benchmark Evaluation	2024	VLDB	0.00025580097
535	ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores	2016	VLDB	0.00020718836
565	NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	0.00019945986
973	Natural language to SQL: Where are we today?	2020	VLDB	0.0001488435
998	CodeS: Towards Building Open-source Language Models for Text-to-SQL	2024	SIGMOD	0.00014726344
1,731	CatSQL: Towards Real World Natural Language to SQL Applications	2023	VLDB	0.00010723825
2,097	Axiomatic Foundations and Algorithms for Deciding Semantic Equivalences of SQL Queries	2018	VLDB	9.5439744e-05
2,435	ScienceBenchmark: A Complex Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Natural Language to SQL Systems	2024	VLDB	8.8218963e-05
2,948	Few-shot Text-to-SQL Translation using Structure and Content Prompt Learning	2023	SIGMOD	7.8301799e-05
3,473	Data Profiling – A Tutorial	2017	SIGMOD	7.0623537e-05
4,733	A SQL Debugger Built from Spare Parts: Turning a SQL:1999 Database System into Its Own Debugger	2015	SIGMOD	5.9555572e-05
5,032	FinSQL: Model-Agnostic LLMs-based Text-to-SQL Framework for Financial Analysis	2024	SIGMOD	5.7431004e-05
5,363	An In-Depth Benchmarking of Text-to-SQL Systems	2021	SIGMOD	5.5467941e-05
5,459	QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster	2020	SIGMOD	5.4946579e-05
5,743	Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples	2019	SIGMOD	5.3432106e-05
8,958	Understanding Queries by Conditional Instances	2022	SIGMOD	4.417947e-05
9,623	Qr-Hint: Actionable Hints Towards Correcting Wrong SQL Queries	2024	SIGMOD	4.3120302e-05

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